而是
ér​shì HSK4

but rather

而是 ér​shì
but rather conjunction
Used in the 不是 bù​shì ... ér shì pattern to contrast two ideas, meaning "not A, but rather B".

变化的不是我，而是其他人。

biàn​huà de bù​shì wǒ, ér​shì qí​tā rén.

It is not I who have changed, but others.

篮球不是个人运动，而是团队运动。

lán​qiú bù​shì gè​rén yùn​dòng, ér​shì tuán​duì yùn​dòng.

Basketball is not an individual sport, but is a team sport.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
62.4 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
177.7 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4

Cross-References

See

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)